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Book says Cubans are not refugees but ‘privileged’ immigrants
The audience listens during a book discussion by Professor Susan Eckstein about her new book “Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America,” at Florida International University’s Wertheim Performing Arts Center in Miami, Florida, on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. D.A. Varela [email protected] It was supposed to be another routine event in the series of regular book presentations organized by Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute: on the podium, a respected scholar authoritatively presenting her most recent research. In the audience, a few attendants asking polite questions. Instead, the presentation Friday evening of “Cuban Privilege, the Making of Immigrant Inequality in America,” a book claiming that Cuban immigrants in the…